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...Ponte Fabricio to Tiberina Island moved a long file of brown Franciscan nuns, the rustling of their robes lost in the rushing Tiber below. Soon solitary groups swelled into crowds; the tide of people stirred all over Italy-fishermen with bare, brown ankles and ruddy-faced mountain men and pale white-collar workers and factory hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read the Collect...
Father Riccardo Lombardi's "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1) marched on. In Naples of the volatile south, as in Milan of the sober north, the impassioned exhortations of the pale little Jesuit reached hundreds of thousands...
...there is much in Communism that must be adopted through Christian charity," cried Lombardi. He reproved the crowd for their demonstration and clambered down, his pale face shiny with sweat...
After the first World War, when horse-drawn trolleys were finally junked, the building was purchased by several businessmen and completely rebuilt into a large cafeteria. Its present pale-red shutters and rusty-iron awning belie the former elegance of an eating place that fed over 2000 people...
...pale, ailing little priest prepared for his speech as usual, by spending four or five hours in concentrated prayer. This time, he fainted as he knelt in prayer, and had to be carried to the rostrum. There his strength returned and the words poured from him with such power and passion that many of his hearers wept...